HOPE Youth Corps is a Christian initiative sending American teens to poverty-stricken locations across the US and further afield.

The organisation's Glasgow project sits alongside other missions to Nairobi, Kenya, and Kingston, Jamaica, among others.

"Come help revitalise the city as we work in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the nation, partnering with a local community organization to help transform unused urban space for a local school," a listing for the Glasgow project on HOPE's website says.

The trip will cost $1,120 (£773) plus a flight, per volunteer.

According to the listing, the project is now closed to new applicants.

HOPE Worldwide

The Glasgow mission description on the HOPE Worldwide website

HOPE Youth Corps is run by HOPE Worldwide which describes itself as responding "to the call of the Scriptures to serve the poor, sick and suffering throughout the world".

It began with three small programmes of work in Ivory Coast, Mexico, and India.

"Today, HOPE Worldwide serves more than 1.5 million people annually on every inhabited continent," its website says.

The video emerged on another YouTube account after having apparently been taken down.

A Go Fund Me page for the pair has also been removed.

In 2010, a population study found Glasgow had premature deaths almost 30 percent higher than similarly deprived cities.

The city's mortality rate is among the highest in the UK and in Europe at 71.6 years for men, seven years below the national average.